Ph body fluid at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave, Knoxville, TN · Fsregional · · NPI 1942294814
$6.60
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$20.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1.61 with Wellpoint vs $8.33 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellpoint | Medicaid Tenncare | $1.61 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Tenncare | $2.29 | ↓ -65% |
| EHN | Network Lease | $2.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Tricare | Humana Military | $3.58 | ↓ -46% |
| Optum | VA CCN | $3.58 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Heritage Select | $3.58 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | Options PPO | $3.58 | ↓ -46% |
| United Healthcare | All Other Plans | $3.58 | ↓ -46% |
| Correctional Medical Services | Correctional Facilities - Inmate Claims | $3.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | DSNP | $3.69 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare Advantage | $3.69 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Community Plan DSNP | $3.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage PPO | $3.72 | ↓ -44% |
| Farm Bureau | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3.72 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential HMO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Devoted Health | HMO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | DSNP | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Devoted Health | PPO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare PPO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| HealthSpring | Medicare HMO POS | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Medicare PPO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Sapphire | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Ruby | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv PPO | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Medicare HMO-POS | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | DSNP | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellpoint | Medicare Advantage | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross of TN | BlueEssential DSNP | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Cross of TN | Med Adv Diamond | $3.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Community Services Network | NonProfit Public Benefit | $3.90 | ↓ -41% |
| USA Managed Care Organization | PPO | $4.20 | ↓ -36% |
| NovaNet | Network Lease | $4.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Beech Street | PPO | $4.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Direct Care America | PPO | $4.80 | ↓ -27% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $4.80 | ↓ -27% |
| MedSave USA | Commercial | $4.80 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS TN | Blue Care | $4.98 | ↓ -25% |
| CCN Managed Care | PPO | $5.10 | ↓ -23% |
| Initial Group | PPO | $5.28 | ↓ -20% |
| Galaxy Health Network | PPO | $5.40 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Exchange | $6.48 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network S | $6.97 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS TN | Commercial Network P | $7.56 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | IFP | $7.63 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Local Plus | $7.66 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | HMO | $8.33 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | OAP | $8.33 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | POS | $8.33 | ↑ +26% |
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Ph body fluid at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkwest Medical Center | Knoxville | $30.87 | $1.61 – $18.00 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | $56.21 | $1.29 – $13.54 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Hixson | Hixson | $22.80 | $3.18 – $53.90 |
| 62-1166050 BMH Carroll County | Huntingdon | $14.03 | $3.11 – $7.16 |
| CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga | Chattanooga | $32.58 | $3.18 – $53.90 |
| Johnson City Medical Center | JOHNSON CITY | $5.25 | $1.79 – $7.80 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | $56.21 | $2.51 – $13.54 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | $56.21 | $2.51 – $13.54 |